Korg Poly800/EX800 Users

Hi,

Does anyone of you know a good (and cheap) way to label my new cutoff,
reso and white noise potentiometers? I'm pretty clueless about this
since it was the first synth-mod I've done. I'd like to introduce my
fellow friend to the modded synth and therefore labels may be helpful.

Regards,
Beloc

> Does anyone of you know a good (and cheap) way to label my new

cutoff,

> reso and white noise potentiometers? ''

Hi

Unfortunately, I can't help you with the labelling, but i'm pretty
curious of your white noise pot. Is it possible to uploaded on the
files section a quick MP3 demo of the result of that mod. I already
did the cutoff and reso mod on my poly 800 and I really love it, so may
be I will try the white noise but i would like to hear it before.

Thanks
Bernard

P.S. Does anybody in this group have somme patches in wave format to
share?

----- Original Message -----

From: belochim

To: korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 4:38 PM

Subject: [korgpolyex] Labeling new potentiometers

Hi,

Does anyone of you know a good (and cheap) way to label my new cutoff,
reso and white noise potentiometers? I'm pretty clueless about this
since it was the first synth-mod I've done. I'd like to introduce my
fellow friend to the modded synth and therefore labels may be helpful.

Regards,
Beloc

> P.S. Does anybody in this group have somme patches in wave format to
> share?

You can get a set from my web page:

http://www.strellis.com/poly800.html

Also mp3 demos of my Moog slayer mod and a guide to how I did it.

Cheers

Chris

> You can get a set from my web page:
>
> http://www.strellis.com/poly800.html
>
> Also mp3 demos of my Moog slayer mod and a guide to how I did it.

Thank you Chris

I'll check your preset this weekend. By the way your site is great,
the pictures are clean and they really help to perform the moogslayer
mod, wich I already did and love it. What I want to hear Is the result
of the whitenoisepot and may be the env mod too. Again, if someone
perform those mods, just trow a MP3 in the file section. It will be
great.
Bernard

--- In korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, "Barak Shalit" <skunkride@h...> wrote:

> Letraset !

Heh. That's definitely the old-school way of doing it! You can also use a labeler like the
Brother P-Touch (love that name), and I think you can buy inkjet-printable plastic sticker
material. That would work too if you had some kind of protective coating on it.

Or you can do what I did with my latest project and make your own etched metal control
panels:

http://tinyurl.com/cajol

cya,
Phoebe aka october71

for labels, get acrylic transfer letters. you can buy them at stationary/hobby shops. pick a font and just rub them on. i'm also interested in the white noise mod. how can i get that?

Hi,

First thanks to all suggestions for the labeling. Since so many people
asked me about the white noise mod here's how to do it:

There's a few things you need for this mod:
- wires
- Potentiometer according to resistor-strength labelled on VR3
- Tester Cables (since I'm not really an electronic specialist and just
check out what's the right connection through these)


SEARCH & FIND:

- first find the VR3 on your Poly-Mainboard
- read what's printed on it
- the print on the VR gives information about which potentiometer to
choose
- on my VR3 it said "1MB", which means the poto should be 1MegaOhm
logarithmicaly. My friendly electronic parts dealer told me that if
the "B" stood after the number it means logarithmic if else linear
- values on VRs may differ from machine to machine

DRILL:

- remove the joystick-contoller-board
- Drill another hole for your new poti (Mine's next to the cutoff)
- solder wires to the 3 pins of the poti long enough to reach to the VR3
- fix the potentiometer in the new drilled hole, let the wires look out

DAMAGE:

- Once you've found the VR3 break it off
- Be carefull not to break off the 3 pins underneath the VR3 - they're
needed afterwards
- the VR is damaged fatally in this prozess and can not be used hence

CONNECT:

- Connect wires to the tester-cables
- Connect tester-cables to the 3 pins
- (*1) Switch on Poly 800 (I closed mine before that-otherwise the
testing becomes difficult)
- Switch to parameter 33, put it to value 15 and see if playing with
the potentiometer leads to any results
- If not, switch off Poly, reopen it, change the place of the tester
cables to the pins, and retry as shown in *1
- repeat this procedure until you get some results
- pay especial attention to the direction the potentiometer turns
(I soldered mine in the wrong direction first, so max. was min. and
vice versa)

SOLDER:

- After having the right connection, solder the cables thusly
- Be careful about it

FINISH:

- After soldering close Poly-Case and have fun with your new White
Noise Potentiometer

All information about this was taken from:
http://www.memi.com/makers/hwsw/basteln/poly800_mod.html

There are informations about other VRs on the Poly as well:

VR1 - DCO Pitch adjust
VR2 - VCF Frequency adjust
VR3 - White Noise level adjust
VR4 - DCO Fine tune adjust
VR5 - VCF resonance adjust

Maybe all of these can be "modded"

Cheers,
beloc

> Hi
>
> Unfortunately, I can't help you with the labelling, but i'm pretty
> curious of your white noise pot. Is it possible to uploaded on the
> files section a quick MP3 demo of the result of that mod. I already
> did the cutoff and reso mod on my poly 800 and I really love it, so

may

> be I will try the white noise but i would like to hear it before.
>
> Thanks
> Bernard
>
> P.S. Does anybody in this group have somme patches in wave format to
> share?